Ann Tyler has come into an inheritance from her grandparents. She is attemptingto decide among several investment alternatives. The return after 1 year is primarilydependent on the interest rate during the next year. 52The rate is currently 7%, and Ann anticipates that it will stay the same or go up ordown by at most two points. The various investment alternatives plus their returns($10,000s), given the interest rate changes, are shown in the following table: 11. In Problem 5, Ann Tyler, with thehelp of a finan cial newsletter and some libraryresearch, has been able to assign probabilities to each of the possible interest ratesduring thenextyear, as follows:Interest Rate (%)Probability5.23738.19.1Using expected value, determine her best investment decision. Interest RateInvestment5%6%7%8%9%Money market fundStock growth fundBond fundGovernment fund3.14.35-3-22.546.6.53243.63.232.8Risk fund-9-4.51.28.314.7Savings bonds333.23.43.54.3.

Here, Formula of Expected Value is as follows: Expected Value= ∑Probability * Returns

Ann Tyler has come into an inheritance from her grandparents. She is attempting to decide among several investment alternatives. The return after 1 year is primarily dependent on the interest rate during the next year. 52 The rate is currently 7%, and Ann anticipates that it will stay the same or go up or down by at most two points. The various investment alternatives plus their returns ($10,000s), given the interest rate changes, are shown in the following table:

Ann Tyler has come into an inheritance from her grandparents. She is attempting to decide among several investment alternatives. The return after 1 year is primarily dependent on the interest rate during the next year. 52 The rate is currently 7%, and Ann anticipates that it will stay the same or go up or down by at most two points. The various investment alternatives plus their returns ($10,000s), given the interest rate changes, are shown in the following table:

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